Hinton R Helper's Book, the Impending Crisis of the South, Argued

question 89

Multiple Choice

Hinton R. Helper's book, The Impending Crisis of the South, argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were

• A) African Americans.
• B) southern planters.
• C) northern Republican abolitionists.
• D) western farmers.
• E) non-slaveholding southern whites.

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